New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-28

The central LABOR Union ulSIlnSulShou i'SOAA
yesterday by resolving to boycott the Thalla
Theatre If New-York worklngmen are all as
Door as the labor agitators would have us
believe, theatres going must be beyond their
means, and this boycott will be of little or no
effect. More to the point was the resolution IN
favor of free libraries and museums on Sunday.
Yet this would probably not do the Central
Labor Unionists any good. They spend most
of their spare time on Sunday in talking, argu-
ing and resolving on all sorts of fruitess topics
in Clarendon Hall
When everybody else. and especially every
other corporation, is justly and fully taxed. il
will be time to think of taxing deposits
in savings banks. These sums, large in
the aggregate, are made up of the hard
earned savings of working people. laid aside
for a rainy day. To tax them would not rem
der them insecure, OF course, but it would
eat no the small interest now paid, and sadly
discourage hundreds of thousands of poor peo-
ple. Directors of savings banks in this city
will hardly fail to appear before the Committee
of Ways and Means In the Assembly this week
and oppose the bill authorizing the tax III
question.
No man can serve two masters; but the DEM
ocratic Senators at Albany are going to under
take that impossible task this week. BY oppos-
ing the High License bill they hope to please
both the rum sellers and the Third-Party Pro-
hlbitionists. 1t remains to be seen how they
will succeed. If the Republicans do their duty,
as we believe they will, the Democratic striv-
ings will be in vain. 1t is said to be possible
that Governor Hill will veto this measure when
it reaches him. That may be; but so apparent
an effort to sway the "gin-mills" on his side is
hardly in the line of his shrewd policy. AT any
must lie at his door.
We print another letter from Providence this
morning, describing further the political situa-
ton in Rhode Island. 1t deserves the careful
attention of all Republicans in that State who
have at heart the welfare of their own COM
monwealth and the country at large. The cam
didates renOminated by the party are faith
full and competent, and to turn them
out to make positions for lot of common
place Democrats would be the height of folly.
The last Legislature is responsible for what it
did of good or evil, and not the excellent and
efficient men ON the current State ticket. To
strike them down at this time would not only
be detrimental to the best interests of the
State; it would be giving aid and comfort to
the Administration at Washington. Republic
cans outside of Rhode Island have the right to
demand that their party shall not be wounded
ut the hands of Its friends
The more the case of the stranded Scotia Il
investigated. the more it does not appear that
her officers knew their business. Much has
been said about them that is not true; but al
accounts agree that the captain was so badly
informed concerning the coast that he mistook
Fire Island light for something else; that he
did not take soundings as he approached the
shore; ard that neither he nor his officers
knew what to do with the lifeline
from the life saving crew. The last
two counts of the indictment are the
grayest and unless the captain of the Scotia
and his subordinates can show that they were
suffering from temporary insanity when the
vessel struck, and that they are not liable to